Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Vices are not crimes.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
